<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html>

<head>
<script>

function boom()
{
  var doomed = document.getElementById("doomed"); 
  doomed.parentNode.removeChild(doomed);
}
  
</script>
</head>

<body onload="boom();">

<table>
  <tr style="visibility: collapse;">
    <td>td</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td id="doomed">td</td>
    <td rowspan="0" colspan="0">td</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>td</td>
  </tr>
</table>

</body>
</html>
